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(No Modl.) J. G. WALLACE.

METHOD OF MAKING SHIRT BOSOMS. No. 364,066. Patented vMay 31; 1887.

N. PEYEns. Pholwbllmgnphcr. Wnshinglon. DC,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH e. WALLAGH, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

7 'METHOD OF MAKING SHIRT=BOSOMS.

specimen-non forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,066, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filed March 16, 1887. Serial No. 231,091. (No model.)

1' 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. WALLACE, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Shirt-Bosoms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front view of the upper part of an open-back shirt having my improved bosom applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar front elevation of the finished bosom in readiness to be applied to ashirt. Fig. 3 is atransverse section, on a greatly-enlarged scale, in line 00 w of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a similar section in line y y of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a sectional view, on a similar scale, of my improved bosom when made for an open-front shirt.

My invention relates to the manufacture of a finished rounded shirt front-or bosom made independently of the body of the shirt to which it is to be subsequently applied, and has for its object to simplifyand perfect the finish of the outer edge or border of the shirt-bosom.

It consists in cutting the under ply or thickness of cloth for the bosom of larger dimensions than the front and intermediate plies or thicknesses, and in folding the edges thereof in over these superimposed plies, as a binding therefor, and, after turning in the edge of the overlapping facing-strip,stitchingitdown with a line of stitches passing through all the plies, in" manner as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the bosom-piece of the shirt, composed, as usual, of two or morelayers of cloth smoothly and evenly superimposed. The under layer, 12, is out much larger at the sides and ends of Y the bosom than the front and interposed layart, and by means thereof a finished rounded bosom may be neatly and cheaply produced with greater ease and expedition than has heretofore-been the case. After the bosompiece has thus been made and finished it is unitedto the shirt-front G by a line of stitching, H, carried, as nearly as possible, in the line of stitching already formed around the edges of the bosom, so as to be concealed by its merger therewith, and the bound edge of the bosonrpiece is left to project beyond the seam and overlap the body-piece in the customary manner, as illustrated in Figs. 4*and 5. \Vhen'the bosom is divided down the center for-use in an open-front shirt, the outer edges are finished in manner substantially as above described, and as illustrated in Fig. 5, and the edges of the central opening are finished-by folding in the edges of the two outer plies of the bosom-piece and stitching them through, as shown at K in said Fig. 5. I

I claim as my invention-1 The method herein described of finishing a detached bosom-piece for a shirt, which consists in cutting the under lining-piece of the bosom of largerdimensions than the snperim posed outer facing-piece, doubling in the edge of said under lining upon itself, folding the doubled edge as a binding over the raw edge of the facing-piece and interposed thicknesses of cl0th,and finally securing the whole by a line of stitching passing through all the plies near to the overlapping doubled edge, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J OS. G. WALLACE. Witnesses:

S. A. STAVERS, A. N. JESBERA. 

